The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday approved plans by a non-profit group to replace a single-family house at 190 Bowdoin St. with a four-story, 33-unit affordable apartment building.
All of the units will be rented to people making 60% or less of the Boston-area median income, under the plans by VietAID, which has already put up a 41-unit apartment building across the street.
The units will consist of 11 one -bedroom apartments, 18 two-bedroom units and 4 three-bedroom units.
The building would have eight surface parking spaces, along with indoor space for 36 bicycles and outside racks for another 8.
The proposal, approved by the Boston Planning Department last month, needed zoning variances because, among other reasons, the lot’s zoning forbids multi-family housing, and the building would be larger and closer to its lot lines than allowed. Also, the front of the building would not be parallel to the front lot line.
VietAID’s attorney, Nick Zozula, said the variances were allowable because of hardships related to the lot: It has an irregular shape, with a tiny extension reaching all the way to Olney Street and because of the lot’s slope.
VietAID will call the building Hollins Park, in honor of the family from which it bought the property for $1.2 million in 2024, according to Suffolk County Registry of Deeds records.
Through aides, City Councilors Brian Worrell and John FitzGerald supported the proposal. Nobody spoke against.
